[Gllug] Virtual disk allocation advice requested

[Jose Luis Martinez]

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Bruce Richardson <itsbruce at workshy.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:11:16AM +0100, Jose wrote:
>> All the below reasoning is correct, but virtualization relies heavily
>> in the assumption that hardware is so fast that such considerations
>> are not necessary in most cases.
>
> That's a pretty broad statement and I really don't think that holds
> true across the board, nor see why it should.  People can choose to use
> virtualization for a variety of reasons and may not have the luxuries
> you seem to be taking for granted.  I've certainly seen virtualization
> configurations deployed in circumstances that were CPU-rich, so to
> speak, but I/O poor.  For a lot of tasks, this will not matter.

I said most cases, not all.

In any case, I am of the opinion that if you are worried about
performance in a virtualized environment perhaps you should not be
virtualizing in the first place, with hardware so relatively cheap
nowadays saving a bit of money via virtualization is rarely
justifiable.


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